Beyond Culture: Using the Human Experience to Solve Global Challenges with Michael Muthukrishna
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 Published On Jan 19, 2024

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If you asked researcher, author, and professor of economic psychology Michael Muthukrishna what makes humans unique from other species on our planet, he would answer: our ability to create culture. Our ability to pass down knowledge, skills, and traditions from generation to generation is a significant part of what creates the uniquely human experience. Michael’s answer would not stop there, though.

In his book, A Theory of Everyone, a title that draws from the “theory of everything” in physics, Michael presents that our human experience, in its entirety — including culture, but also aspects like energy and innovation — can help solve many of the global challenges we face today. 

In this Virtual Gathering, Michael will join Board Member Rand Stagen to provide insights from across the sciences and humanities on how combining aspects of human behavior, culture, and society with life science principles can be used to help solve problems like polarization, inequality, and the energy crisis. While the challenges we face as a species and across the planet are critical, this conversation will help us take a step back, simplify the abstract ideas that often cloud solutions that are within our reach, and craft a blueprint to chart a collective path toward a better tomorrow for everyone.

Speaker Bio:

Michael Muthukrishna

Michael Muthukrishna is Associate Professor of Economic Psychology, STICERD Developmental Economics Group Affiliate, Data Science Institute Affiliate, and founder of Culturalytik at the London School of Economics. Dr Muthukrishna has won several awards for his research, which integrates a variety of topics, including innovation, corruption, and navigating diversity and cultural differences. He has been invited to speak to companies large and small around the world, governments and NGOs, and at world-leading centres of academic excellence, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Oxford. Audiences have included judges, policy-makers, members of the military, government officials, and key industry figures across a variety of industries.

Dr Muthukrishna makes the science of human and cultural evolution more accessible through animations, videos, documentaries, and other popular media. His research and interviews have appeared in a variety of international and national news outlets including CNN, BBC, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Scientific American, PBS, Vice, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Nature News, and Science News, and in the UK in the Times, Telegraph, Mirror, Sun, and Guardian.

Dr Muthukrishna's research is informed by his educational background in engineering and psychology, with graduate training in evolutionary biology, economics, and statistics, and his personal background living in Sri Lanka, Botswana, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Canada, United States, and United Kingdom. His latest book A Theory of Everyone, published by MIT Press and Penguin Random House, will be released September 2023.

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